Where Eagles Dare

rockquarry said:
I responded in the same vein as the original post mentioning something about ten best Eastwood films, so I referred to Where Eagles Dare as an Eastwood film. Certainly a grave error on my part. I'm well aware that Burton was a big name star long before Eastwood began acting.
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I hope you realize that I saw a loose link of chain and couldn't help pulling.:D
 
mtgianni said:
We had an older radio dispatch system at work and I always wanted to get on it one late night with "Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy, over".
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Forgive my drift but In the not so distant past I would answer the occasional unidentified phone calls with either:

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Remember. Miles to go before I sleep.”

Or "Wounds my heart with monotonous languor."
 
Rustyt1953 said:
The film had an acclaimed soundtrack.

The book didn't have Mary Ure.
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I liked the movie. And Mary Ure. There is something about blondes in a black beret. I didn't know this until recently when watching a documentary about Robert Shaw. He was Mary Ure's husband at the time. She died tragically young of an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates.
 
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LVSteve said:
Where Eagles Dare is a Richard Burton movie that happens to have Clint Eastwood in it. :D
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Never really thought about it that way, but exactly. Burton was one of those guys who should have stayed on stage spouting Shakespeare, IMO. Having Eastwood in it made it palatable to 'Muricans.

The thing I probably had the biggest issue with in the film was the helicopter in the courtyard of the Schloss. Germany did field a helicopter in WWII, but it was most definitely not a Bell 47. That was as bad as using M48 Patton tanks for the German tanks in Battle of the Bulge.
 
A WWII classic. Putting myself in the place of 60's filmmakers, I can forgive the equipment inaccuracies. Not much German equipment survived. Eagle in particular had enough plot to keep the hardware (except the plentiful small arms) on the sidelines. If I recall correctly, the most deadly vehicle was a school bus.
 
Hair Trigger said:
Never really thought about it that way, but exactly. Burton was one of those guys who should have stayed on stage spouting Shakespeare, IMO. Having Eastwood in it made it palatable to 'Muricans.

The thing I probably had the biggest issue with in the film was the helicopter in the courtyard of the Schloss. Germany did field a helicopter in WWII, but it was most definitely not a Bell 47. That was as bad as using M48 Patton tanks for the German tanks in Battle of the Bulge.
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Or F5s as Migs:D
 
For some reason I always put Where eagles Dare in the same boat with Dirty Dozen and Guns of Navarone. Krauts can't hit anything, a quick burst from a Thompson wipes out 10 of the enemy and a half dozen GIs make it miles behind the lines never being spotted.
 
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LVSteve said:
Here's somebody else who doesn't get it.;) Where Eagles Dare is a Richard Burton movie that happens to have Clint Eastwood in it. :D
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Respectfully...I think of it as a British movie with Clint Eastwood in it. Many of the cast members, such as Michael Hordern (Admiral Rowland), Patrick Wymark (Colonel Turner), Brook Williams (Sgt. Harrod), Neil McCarthy (Sgt. MacPherson), John G. Heller (German Major), Ernst Walder (Air Traffic Controller) were all regulars in British films of that era.
 
dsf said:
For some reason I always put Where eagles Dare in the same boat with Dirty Dozen and Guns of Navarone. Kauts can't hit anything, a quick burts from a Thompson wipes out 10 of the enemy and a half dozen GIs make it miles behind the lines never being spotted.
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That's why liking it is such a guilty pleasure for so many of us! :)
 
The "Schloss Adler" of the movie is actually Burg Hohenwerfen, located in Austria. It's about 6 miles east of the Bavarian border, and about 23 miles south of Salzburg. In 2015 one of my sons and I visited there...what a great experience! (In the second photo below, the tree is approximately where the helicopter landed in the courtyard.)

Welcome to the Hohenwerfen adventure castle | Burg Hohenwerfen
 

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Shakespearian based

mtgianni said:
We had an older radio dispatch system at work and I always wanted to get on it one late night with "Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy, over".
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You can only do it with Burtons Shakespearian intonation. Sounded like Burton doing Hamlet soliloquy. Enunciation don't ya know?
 
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